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BioHackrXiv: Creating a federated publishing platform

Year: 2026

Type: preprint

Abstract: The first BioHackrXiv preprint was published in 2020, using a platform based on the idea of using Markdown (Prins et al., 2022), and BioHackrXiv can be considered a preprint success with over 119 publications (per September 2025) with over 30 publication added per year. Machine-readable metadata is added to the Markdown that is added includes the title, keywords, the author names, their affiliations, and details about the Biohackathon event the preprint is related to.

DOI: 10.37044/osf.io/jh3m7_v1

Authors: Arun Isaac, Egon Willighagen, Tazro Ohta, Toshiaki Katayama, Pjotr Prins

Language: English

Topic: Academic Publishing and Open Access

Subfield: Library and Information Sciences

Field: Social Sciences

Domain: Social Sciences

Open Access status: green

OpenAlex ID: W7213975534

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